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Title: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 20 08 02:24
I've had this card/letter from this girl for a couple months. Anyway she wrote something in Chinese and I can't find out what it means. help.... lol

sorry for the bad quality.

(http://i25.tinypic.com/105a9au.jpg)


 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 20 08 02:52
(http://i25.tinypic.com/105a9au.jpg)

  我想你

  It kinda sorta looks like I'm thinking of you.  (but that's just from googling....I know zip about it)    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 20 08 03:33
Really?.... No way.
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: 49er on May 20 08 04:35
Thank You in mandarin
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 20 08 06:08
Yeayyyyy....49er to the rescue.  Such intricate characters....almost impossible to decipher to an untrained eye.
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 20 08 07:08
Thanks 49er. Thank You over Thinking About You makes more sense from knowing her really well. She always said because of her culture she wasn't able to show real emotions or something because it showed weakness or something. Fascinating lol.    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 20 08 08:10
Hey I even recognized that!  I'm amazed with myself... I thought I lost everything. :P  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 21 08 01:27
 purelife wrote:
Hey I even recognized that!  I'm amazed with myself... I thought I lost everything. :P  

So does the smiley translate into anything??  "you capatalist pig dog" or something like that???  ha ha ha ...
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Lise on May 21 08 05:43
Are you sure it isn't something x-rated? (http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/frech/a096.gif)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 21 08 12:01
 Lise wrote:
Are you sure it isn't something x-rated? (http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/frech/a096.gif)

Nah, doesn't fit her personality. lol

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Gopher on May 21 08 12:06
Maybe she has hidden depths.
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 21 08 12:22
haha I don't think so. She has extreme self control and even keel mood except when you bring up China then she gets all passionate and ranting and raving. lol



 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 23 08 09:03
If you ever get an e-mail written in another language (like i did the other day) you can use this website to decode.  Doesn't help with paper but if it's electronic or you can type the letters you can run it through this ... it will give you the jist of the message   (Most every language is on here)

 [A href="http://stars21.com/translator/" target=_blank][FONT color=#0000cc]http://stars21.com/translator/[/FONT][/A]
 


 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 09:15
(http://i25.tinypic.com/105a9au.jpg)

  我想你  I'm thinking of you

[DIV dir=ltr]

[DIV dir=ltr]"感谢  Thankyou

[DIV dir=ltr]

[DIV dir=ltr]According to the translator.....it doesn't seem to look anything like thankyou.   [img onclick="selecte('eh.gif');" alt=emoticon src="http://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/blehnet/eh.gif[/img]      
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 23 08 09:31
[DIV dir=ltr]According to the translator.....it doesn't seem to look anything like thankyou.   [img onclick="selecte('eh.gif');" alt=emoticon src="http://www.pushupstairs.com/images/emoticon/blehnet/eh.gif" border=0]

[DIV dir=ltr]

[DIV dir=ltr]I know that both Mandarin and Cantonese use the sme characters - but one thing that is possible I picked up a book for an uncle of LM's in San Fran when I was in Dunhuang (Western China) and he said he couldn't read the "new Chinese" meaning that there are older and newer versions - perhaps the website uses and older more formal version??  I noticed that there were several chinese buttons.  

     
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 23 08 09:35
[DIV dir=ltr]Yeah I just looked - they call it Chinese T (for traditional) - I can't get my intrnet to do many things so i can't see the difference.

[DIV dir=ltr]

[DIV dir=ltr]

     
 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 09:35
Yea....they had a 'simplified' and 'traditional' option.  Neither looked like thankyou. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/8.gif)  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 23 08 09:39
P.C. wrote:
 Yea....they had a 'simplified' and 'traditional' option.  Neither looked like thankyou. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/8.gif)

  If this was a problem in Vietnamese I could probably help out - but alas very very very few Vietnamese speak chinese.  
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 09:40
SD wrote:  I've had this card/letter from this girl for a couple months. Anyway she wrote something in Chinese and I can't find out what it means. help.... lol

  So...I'm thinkin......why didn't you just ask her ?
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 23 08 09:54
I was thinking the SAME thing too, PC.  Heck, I even typed it but didn't post it.

  It took him more effort to scan, save and post than to simply ask her or ask one of his chinese friends.  It was only 3 characters.  

  I'd understand if it was a couple of phrases (like an entire letter) and SD asking for a translator.

  Does someone want attention?
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 10:09
Uhm I've asked and she's goes "you figure it out" lol.

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 10:13
I'd write her a letter in Swahili, and tell her to figure it out. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 10:18
I reckon she wouldn't be too happy with that suggestion. I could do something in German though, she knows that language.  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 10:21
I can't write in american english, she doesn't understand that always asks questions when I use a phrase she's never heard of.  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 10:23
I reckon she wouldn't be too happy with that suggestion. I could do something in German though, she knows that language.  

  What's the point of doing it in a language she knows.... that would kind of defeat the purpose.    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 23 08 10:27
Tell her to post on DS and ask us about English.  Or, tell her to figure it out. Or, tell her to buy a dictionary.    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: 49er on May 23 08 10:37
translate thank you to traditional chinese.....characters appear same
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Gopher on May 23 08 10:51
Try it in invisible ink!
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 10:59
 P.C. wrote:
[em]I reckon she wouldn't be too happy with that suggestion. I could do something in German though, she knows that language.[/em]  
 
What's the point of doing it in a language she knows.... that would kind of defeat the purpose.


hahaha  You just gave me an idea.
 

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 23 08 11:22
 49er wrote:  translate thank you to traditional chinese.....characters appear same

  Well....not to me.  To me it looks nothing like SD's note.   I'd make a lousy translator. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

  (http://i25.tinypic.com/105a9au.jpg)

  Thankyou 'traditional'       "感謝

Thankyou 'simplified'    "感谢

     
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 23 08 11:35
Send her some homemade paprikash.  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 11:49
She'll have plenty of that where she's going, which I don't think personally she'll be there long. Hungarian language is stupid hard.

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 23 08 12:09
English is also a hard language to learn and I know this chinese lady who grew very fluent in 6 months because of her 24/7 dedication to mastering the language.  You wouldn't be able to tell that she was an Immigrant 6 months ago.
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 23 08 12:12
wow. There's still some people in my family that sound like they just came off the boat and they've been here for 60 years. lol

Then there's Arnold which none of us understand why he still acts like he learned english yesterday.
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 25 08 09:00
 Sportsdude wrote:
wow. There's still some people in my family that sound like they just came off the boat and they've been here for 60 years. lol

Then there's Arnold which none of us understand why he still acts like he learned english yesterday.

There are people in trailer parks across the land that have been here for generations and are nearly unintelligible (or is that unitelligent?)
 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 09:10
Ah you mean the folks that speak the wondeful language known as 'American' lol.
There's English and then there's American. To some Senators in Congress Americans don't speak English but American. go figure.

Yeah those people. Who live in Montreal, Missouri but say they live in Man-tree- il, Mazzzerah or Rehn-elt (Renault), Ellenoissss (Illinois or Illin- oye)

Steelville, Missouri is another good one. Its said Stillville Mizzzerrrah.
Warshington is another.

Care-o (Cairo) Illinois.

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 25 08 09:25
 Sportsdude wrote:
Ah you mean the folks that speak the wondeful language known as 'American' lol.
There's English and then there's American. To some Senators in Congress Americans don't speak English but American. go figure.

Yeah those people. Who live in Montreal, Missouri but say they live in Man-tree- il, Mazzzerah or Rehn-elt (Renault), Ellenoissss (Illinois or Illin- oye)

Steelville, Missouri is another good one. Its said Stillville Mizzzerrrah.
Warshington is another.

Care-o (Cairo) Illinois.

I wasn't refering to americam trailer parks - rather trailer parks in general.

But since you bring this up ...

I was watching seasame street with the kids and big bird was on the great wall of china and he asks this little kid if she speaks american and the kid replies no - but i speak english!  I laughed my a$$ off.

Illinois is especially bad - Michel will have a cow  -  I was visiting a friend just outta Chicago - and people kept refering to the suburb of mar sails and i did'nt see it on the map - then i realized they were refering to Marseille there were a few others but the mar sails just kiiled me.

 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 25 08 09:39
     
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 25 08 09:41
Well, I have to admit....I almost never get this one off my tongue on the first try.  Ucluelet.

Uculet....Ucuelet....Ulculet....Ucululet.....(http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/10.gif)  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 09:44
 Hmm I know a few people who would berate against the kid on Seasame Street. lol

Yeah, most of my family is from Southern Illinois and they go out of their way to correct anyone who says the 's' at the end of it. Plus I consider myself Illinoisian moreso then Missourian. You can go to the local Applebees in Carbondale on a Friday night and you'd think you were in Vancouver. So odd that people from all over the world come to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. I mean Carbondale banned Halloween because Frat boys burned the town down a few years ago and then of course the radicalism of the 70s riots and such.

Don't know much about Northern Illinois (outside of Chicago) but Illinois has had a political civil war going on for a while. The south which is less populated and conservative thinks Chicago is out to get them and have thought about wanting to split. lol. Although their Gov. right now is probably the second worst in the nation after Missouri's. He refuses to live in Springfield, he governs from Chicago and is corrupt. The House and Senate are trying to recall him.

But Northern Illinois does seem to butcher the french names moreso then the South. Joilet, Illinois is a good example. Its named after the French Canadian explorer but they corrupted the name for some reason.
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 25 08 09:45
     
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 25 08 09:47
Uklulele ?
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 09:48
 Hey Michel, got a question.
There's this old French Fort in Southern Ill. that was burned down by the brits and then left for ruines for about 100 years. Then the state decided to make an exact replica of it.

Everyone says "Fort Charters" but its spelled Chartres. Are the locals correct or are they off?
[a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chartres"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chartres[/a]

which btw is next to a town called Prairie du Rocher which is said locally as "Roacher" lol
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 25 08 09:52
   
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 25 08 09:53
     
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 09:54
I never can get that name right. I said U Clue it to Stalin once he got annoyed.
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 25 08 09:56
 P.C. wrote:
I'd write her a letter in Swahili, and tell her to figure it out. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)


 Hello my name is sportsdude and i am writing to you in greek
 
 Γειά σου το όνομά μου είναι sportsdude και σας γράφω σε στα εβραϊκά

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 25 08 10:00
I'd make up my own language.....and then tell her to figure it out.  (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 25 08 10:01
     
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 10:06
 bwhaha Van Guy

I have to write a letter to her anyway. You guys are giving me ideas.
I should write something in 5 languages I have some familiarity with spanish, french, german, hungarian and english. Haha she'd get a kick out of that, but then I'd get a complete letter back in Mandarin or Taiwanese then I'm screwed. Oh I know I can use Swabian words and confuse her since she only knows High German dialect. ah ah

Or better yet just use American slang, she'd be clueless and I'd have to explain the whole letter over msn or yahoo phone. lol


 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 25 08 10:25
 Sportsdude wrote:
 bwhaha Van Guy

I have to write a letter to her anyway. You guys are giving me ideas.
I should write something in 5 languages I have some familiarity with spanish, french, german, hungarian and english. Haha she'd get a kick out of that, but then I'd get a complete letter back in Mandarin or Taiwanese then I'm screwed. Oh I know I can use Swabian words and confuse her since she only knows High German dialect. ah ah

Or better yet just use American slang, she'd be clueless and I'd have to explain the whole letter over msn or yahoo phone. lol

http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_hebrew.html
http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_bulgarian.html
http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_korean.html
http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_korean.html
http://www.stars21.com/translator/english_to_norwegian.html

some suggestions ...



 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 25 08 11:34
haha! Thanks van guy, great site. :)  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 08:32
 Sportsdude wrote:
haha! Thanks van guy, great site. :)  

You are very welcome I've used it a bit - it has come in handy
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 08:39
So its accurate? I know the german to english click goes to babelfish which I know isn't the best. The Hungarian one seems more accurate though.
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Lil Me on May 27 08 08:50
I'd like to get a babelfish.  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 08:53
  Sportsdude wrote:
So its accurate? I know the german to english click goes to babelfish which I know isn't the best. The Hungarian one seems more accurate though.

I can't speak to it's accuracy on all languages but vietnamese is pretty good - i was able to get the jist of an indonesian email i got the other day and apparently people seem pleased with the chinese from the feedback here.
 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 08:56
 Lil Me wrote:
I'd like to get a babelfish.  

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" title="Universe"]Universe[/a]
i wonder how they taste off the barbq with some dill?
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 08:57
     
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Lil Me on May 27 08 08:59
The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe" title="Universe"]Universe[/a]. It feeds on [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Brainwave"]brainwave[/a] energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathic" class="mw-redirect" title="Telepathic"]telepathic[/a] matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve" title="Nerve"]nerve[/a] signals picked up from the speech centres of the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain" title="Brain"]brain[/a] which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 09:00
Thanks  :)

  Although those are bad really, I always used translations for Spanish class. lol (only because I thought of French and then in French class started talking in Spanish. Oh, that was horrible should of just took German, since I already was exposed to it.)    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Lil Me on May 27 08 09:00
 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Babel_Fish_diagram.jpg).
 
 Probably not very edible.  Even with dill and lemon.
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 09:02
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 09:10
 Michel wrote:
 They might be ok for dry subjects, with no sensibilities in it. Business transaction and administrative purpose for example, but for the rest, it can brings lots of confusion. I have used those in English, Frecnh, Mandarin and Spanish, and it's just silly what you'll get. You even get sometine the total opposite of what you wrote.  

OK does anyone else find it funny that Michel mispelled "french"
you\re right Michel i just use it to get the jist of the note - i wouldn't use it for anything technical or official
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 09:14
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 09:28
 Michel wrote:
lol well it should be called français my friend. I defy you to write English in French, you lazy anglo-saxon speaker. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/13.gif)  

Anglais

i didn't even look it up   (//forums/richedit/smileys/Teasing/10.gif)  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 09:32
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 09:35
 Michel wrote:
Wow thanks the FLQ and the PQ, I knew these guy would be usefull one day ah ah ! A Canadian knows how to spell his language in French. You sure are a distinct society from the American and the British thanks to that (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)  

perhaps i should separate - wait a minute I'm in vietnam  - i think i did separate.
two kids in french immersion helps a bit
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 09:37
     
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 09:39
Spanrench    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 27 08 09:50
 Sportsdude wrote:
Spanrench
 
huh?

 
 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 10:02
That's what I speak when i take a Spanish or French class. I'll count to 10 1-5 in Spanish 6-10 in French. I screwed up learning those languages because I took Spanish first then switched schools, Spanish was full, so they put me in French for 2 years. Then I went back to Spanish a couple years later.    
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 27 08 10:11
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 27 08 10:18
The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [A title=Universe href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe"][FONT color=#000000]Universe[/FONT][/A]. It feeds on [A class=mw-redirect title=Brainwave href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave"][FONT color=#000000]brainwave[/FONT][/A] energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with.



I think I know someone like that.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a093.gif" border=0]
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 11:11
Sioui  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 27 08 12:02
Emdaij
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 27 08 12:49
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Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: stretchedout on May 27 08 01:38
This is all I know, and I use the last one the most!

  1) That's not right .......................... Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive?.............. Hu Yu Hai Ding
3) See me ASAP................................ Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man ................................ Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse ............................... Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the beach? .................. Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table .............. Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin ni
8] I think you need a face lift .............. Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here .................... Wao So Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet ............. Wai Yu Mun Ching?
11) This is a tow away zone .................. No Pah King
12) Our meeting is scheduled for next week ... Wai Yu Kum Nao?
13) Staying out of sight ..................... Lie Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile ............. Wa Shing Ka
15) Your body odor is offensive .............. Yu Stin Ki Pu
16) Great .................................... Fa Kin Su Pah
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 27 08 02:34
I always chuckle when I read that.  Thanks Stretched. :)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: P.C. on May 27 08 02:37
Those are cute....lol
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Sportsdude on May 27 08 02:46
haha  
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: van_guy on May 28 08 05:03
 purelife wrote:
.

Purelife you really nedd to stop blathering on and on like that it's really quite annoying to those of us who have to read all this text.  It's not like we don't have better things to do with our lives you know.  Jeez try to keep your ideas concise.  

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Lise on May 28 08 05:52
Wa Ai Ni.

  My favorite especially when it comes from hubby. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/3.gif)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 28 08 08:14
van_guy wrote:
purelife wrote:
.

Purelife you really nedd to stop blathering on and on like that it's really quite annoying to those of us who have to read all this text.  It's not like we don't have better things to do with our lives you know.  Jeez try to keep your ideas concise.
 
 
I really tried to limit my bla bla'ings but it was so hard.  I'm really good at talking non-sense.  I'll try to add something interesting next time.

 BUT, just because you say so, doesn't mean that everyone else thinks that.  You're picking on me and I don't like it.  I'm going to tell Lil Me on you!  

 
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 28 08 09:52
   
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: purelife on May 28 08 10:13
LOL Michel.  Rings don't stop any man....or woman. :)
Title: Re: Help with Chinese
Post by: Michel on May 28 08 10:19